NATO member states 'ignore our potential' in the area of nuclear weapons, top Russian diplomat Sergei Ryabkov said.
Russian official Sergei Ryabkov, who is an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has recently warned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization underestimates Russia's nuclear threats.Amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, prominent Russian officials such as Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, and Valentina Matviyenko, a senator from St.
He continued: 'The fact that the West, and first and foremost NATO countries, ignore our potential in this area and that this group has some gut feeling that things won't end in the worst-case scenario, no matter how they mock common sense, makes it necessary to say more clearly, more distinctly and more precisely what may happen provided that they persist in this.'Newsweek reached out to the Russian government and NATO via online form for comment.
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